“On the edge of a pool designed by Oscar Niemeyer by the crystalline blue water, beneath the scorching sun is the extraordinary presence of Gisele Bündchen. Stretched out, sensual, her eyes hidden away beneath tinted glasses, her head in the stars, wearing an evening dress in the middle of the day, the Brazilian siren on the cover of this issue isn’t afraid of anything to bask in all that summer has to offer,” writes Emmanuelle Alt, editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris in her June/July 2017 editorial. With swimsuits and diamonds, short skirts and mini shorts, the hottest destinations and the newest beauty treatments, it’s a double issue available from May 24. And as a supplement to the magazine, find the Vogue x Isabel Marant collector’s summer t-shirt for 5 euros more in a selection of stores.

For the new issue, Vogue is giving weddings a seat at the top table of fashion, borrowing the looks of Vittoria Ceretti, photographed for the cover by Mario Testino. A style bible that reaches beyond conventions to decipher the fine art of weddings, on newsstands April 20, 2017.

“This new issue was conceived as an antidote to wedding fashion faux pas, a peace treaty between style and marriage,” writes Emmanuelle Alt, editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, in her May 2017 editorial. Vittoria Ceretti poses for her first ever time on the cover, shot by Mario Testino for this weddings special celebrating the powerful purity of white in all its many nuances. In a ceremony of style at the altar of chic, guests include Valérie Lemercier who reveals anecdotes and her advice for the big day. Also on the menu: as well as the abundance of fashion, the best addresses for a honeymoon of ultimate luxury and green beauty tips for a wedding day glow from the inside out.

What’s more, for two euros extra, a Vogue x Aurélie Bidermann bracelet will be yours, available in three colors.

She has azure almond eyes, a seventy-seven-meter body with perfect curves and a subdued domed chest. When she arrives in the studio, in jeans and a simple t-shirt, Valentina Sampaio, the cover girl of this issue, has the aura of beauty cut to slam on the cover of Vogue. Nothing differentiates her from Gisele, Daria, Edie or Anna, but one detail. Valentina, the femme fatale, was born a boy, a detail that we would not like to reveal so much it is due to the accident in the lives of these women and so we imagine they would like to forget it. But if Valentina is the trustee of the cover of Vogue this month, beyond the evidence of her plastic qualities and the sheen of her personality, it is because she incarnates in spite of herself a struggle, secular and painful, not to be perceived as an "exile of the genus” or a creature apart. Valentina is the glam standard of a cause in motion. Like Caitlyn Jenner, Anohni (ex Anthony and the Johnsons), the Wachowski sisters, Lea T, Riccardo Tisci's charismatic muse, and Caroline Cossey, the incandescent James Bond girl of For Your Eyes Only. In a "post-genre" world that more creators emphasize on the catwalk, the trans, the ultimate symbols of the rejection of pretenses, become icons that Vogue supports and chooses to celebrate.

The nomination of Anohni to the Oscars, the election of Caitlyn Jenner as "Woman of the Year" by US Glamour, or the success of the Transparent series on a father who decides to change sexes signify progress, a message of hope. The day when a transsexual will pose in a magazine and it will no longer be necessary to write an editorial on the subject, we will know that the battle is won.

This month, Christy Turlington radiates on the cover shot by Inez & Vinoodh for an issue celebrating the art of couture and eternal French chic. On newsstands March 23.

“She was a role model for millions of girls in the middle of the 90s. With her fawn eyes, refreshingly contagious smile, and a body sculpted by years of yoga, Christy Turlington has a miraculous natural beauty that made her one of the most beautiful specimens in the squadron of supermodels. She has a radiant tranquility, gliding through her stellar career and life, totally at ease with the passing of time. The joie de vivre that she radiates on the cover this month is all the proof needed.” writes editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, Emmanuelle Alt in her April 2017 editorial. The last time that her smile lit up the cover, Christy Turlington was celebrating 95 years of Vogue style. Discovered at age 13 in Miami before being signed to her first shoot with Arthur Elgort a few years later, Christy’s career has always brought her back to the City of Lights. A city that’s bold and inventive, where this month she brings to life the most beautiful couture creations before a few pages later we meet the artists and personalities who have made the city what it is, with Alma Jodorowsky, Françoise Hardy, Michel Legrand, Amanda Lear, Jean Paul Gaultier and Michou, exclusively photographed by Hedi Slimane. And this month, the Vogue Enfants supplement is super sporty to get your little ones outdoors in the sun.

It was at the moment when we put the finishing touches to this issue that we learned of the disappearance of Franca Sozzani. A news of infinite sadness and brutal suddenness. Franca was an ideal editor-in-chief, not to say a model, and I have no memory of Vogue Italia before she took the lead nearly thirty years ago. Her stroke of genius? Having understood that to influence people's minds, to influence fashion, and to make a magazine a reference, it was necessary above all to produce and publish striking images. A visionary with a feline instinct, she revealed an impressive squad of photographers, now legendary, Peter Lindbergh, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino...

During her reign, Vogue Italia became the ultimate reference in fashion magazines and, over the years, Franca became one of the stars of this industry. We often found ourselves side by side at dinners, to the point of amusing ourselves, and our favorite conversations revolved around our respective sons, the incredible connection, the complicity we shared with them. The last time I met her, it was in Paris, a city she loved and where she had a pied-à-terre, on the occasion of the Chanel Métiers d’Art show orchestrated by Karl Lagerfeld. It was two weeks before her death. Despite the illness that consumed her, there again, she did not let go of that solar smile that illuminated her face as Madonna. In all circumstances. As in this picture taken by Peter Lindbergh at the Café de Flore. Beyond the affection and admiration I had for her, I have the feeling of losing today a classmate who knew how to embody Vogue like no one else. This issue is dedicated to her.